Re: Test Release: grep-2.5.4-20080209b

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:34:42AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 09 February 2008, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> > We are getting closer to an actual release :O)
> >
> > I made a new test release grep-2.5.4-20080209b. You can download it from:
> 
> while `make check` passes for me, i'm guessing the failing tests from 2.5.3 
> were dropped rather than fixed ?  for example, the -o -i brokeness ...
> 
> fails with 2.5.4 but not 2.5.1:
> $ echo W | grep -o -i W
> <nothing>
> -mike

 Interesting.  After I figured out you probably aren't using UTF-8
and changed LC_ALL to C after the pipe, I can confirm this, except
on a version of 2.5.3 with the multibyte patches from debian
(that is, their patches 55,60,61,63,64,65,66,67).  In en_GB.UTF-8
all versions work fine for me.

 For what it's worth (in the absence of copyright assignments,
probably not a lot), with those patches it isn't appreciably slower
in multibyte locales and gives the best results I've seen from the
testsuite (42 failures in foad1, 2 in fmbtest, 3 in yesno - instead
of 58, 2, 3 with the 2.5.3 release [ all with cs_CZ.UTF-8 ]).  Adding
the latest versions of foad1 and yesno to that fixes all the failures
in yesno, obviously, but adds an extra failure in foad1 for the new
-h -H test.  Looking at the reult, it was because debian force it to
output '(standard input)' and patch the existing foad1.sh
accordingly.

Ken
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